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June 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: June 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 20/20, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Blur, Cover Two, Jesse Mulligan, Joan As Police Woman, June, June 2020, Music, Out Of Time, Radio, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: June 2020, Shelby Lynn, Strange Things ·

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June 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1099

Chris Farlowe, Out Of Time – The Best of Chris Farlowe (1978) When I first heard Chris Farlowe I was bitterly disappointed. That’s because I was expecting The Rolling Stones. As a fan of the TV show Tour of Duty – and its soundtrack album/s – I was expecting to hear The Stones’ version of […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1978, Chris Farlowe, LP, Out Of Time, Paint It Black, The Best of Chris Farlowe, The Rolling Stones, Tour Of Duty, Vinyl ·

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June 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

R.E.M: Green – 25th Anniversary Edition

R.E.M. Green: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Warners I’ll say straight off that my bias is this was my introduction to R.E.M. I went back to everything before it – but Green was perfectly suited for me; at that time very much green myself. And it was the best introduction I could have to the band […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 25th Anniversary Edition, Album Review, Automatic For The People, Document, Green, Michael Stipe, Monster, Murmur, Orange Crush, Out Of Time, R.E.M., Reissue, Stand, Turn You Inside-Out, You Are The Everything ·

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June 2, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1365

R.E.M., Green (1988) It’s become the thing to say – or maybe it was always the thing to say – that the first four or five R.E.M. albums are faultless or close to it and everything else is either bits’n’piece-y or redundant/flat out awful. Not true of course – I’d argue the band’s first decade […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1988, Green, I Remember California, Murmur, Orange Crush, Out Of Time, R.E.M., Stand ·

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November 20, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1469

Blur, Think Tank  (2003) My favourite Blur album. That might be the wrong answer – but I don’t think so. I even like that it has the worst Blur song (maybe even the worst song by anyone) on it. I like albums that are great but have one giant shocking shirtbird fuckout of a song […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Blur, Crazy Beat, Damon Albarn, Out Of Time, Think Tank ·

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November 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1503

R.E.M., Murmur (1983) I first heard Murmur after the late-80s/early-90s version of R.E.M. So I loved Green and Out Of Time and then wanted to hear where it had come from. Murmur was next for me. And I loved it. Instantly. I’ve argued before that R.E.M. is/was the best band of the 1980s. And they had a […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Green, Murmur, Out Of Time, Perfect Circle, R.E.M., Stephen King ·

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March 30, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1554

R.E.M., Life’s Rich Pageant (1986) Not the first R.E.M. album I heard (that was Green) and not the first I owned (that was Out Of Time) but it was – for what it’s worth – the first I owned on vinyl. And it came about because one of the mechanics at my dad’s work was […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, Begin The Begin, Bill Berry, Blog On The Tracks, Fall On Me, Green, Life's Rich Pageant, LP, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, New Adventures In Hi-Fi, Out Of Time, Peter Buck, R.E.M., These Days, Vinyl ·

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